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126  CHIC A GO AREA B Y AREA

A Three-Hour Walk Continue to walk north,
Downtown passing the Marquette
Building (see p45) on
your left, to The Four
Dozens of works by world-renowned artists are on public Seasons (1974) 6 by
display throughout Chicago’s Downtown. This walk Marc Chagall (1887–
explores a selection from this huge outdoor art gallery 1985), at First National
and the buildings in the area, many of which are themselves Plaza. This huge, four-
works of art. The spectacular backdrop that the Loop’s sided mosaic consists
of thousands of tiles in
commanding architecture provides ensures excellent more than 250 colors that
sights along the way. illustrate various Chicago
scenes. Across the street
is the ground-breaking
State. Continue north, bearing Inland Steel Building 7.
left at Jackson, to the Ralph Steel pilings were
Metcalfe Federal Building and driven 85 feet (26 m)
the stainless steel and aluminium down to the bedrock
sculpture The Town-Ho’s Story to support the
(1993) 4 by Frank Stella (b.1936). building. Follow 8 Miró’s Chicago
WEST WACKER DRIVE
WEST W ACKER DRIVE r
E SOUTH WATER STREET
E WACKER PLACE NORTH MICHIGAN AVE
N WELLS ST
Clark/ N DEARBORN ST STREET N STATE State/ EAST LAKE ST NORTH FIELD BLVD NORTH HARBOR DRIVE
Lake Lake N GARLAND CT
Lake N O R T H C O L U M B U S D R I V E
q w e t
NORTH STETSON AVENUE
NORTH LASALLE ST
WEST RANDOLPH ST
9 Randolph/ Millennium EAST RANDOLPH STREET
3 Buildings in the Loop with Grant Park N CLARK ST Washington Wabash
in the foreground 0
WEST WASHINGTON STREET
Washington/ 8 MAGGIE
South Michigan Avenue to Wells Madison/ MILLENNIUM DALEY
South Dearborn Street S DEARBORN Wabash PARK PARK
Start at the Adams CTA Station WEST MADISON STREET SOUTH STATE E MADISON STREET
1 and walk east on Adams SOUTH LASALLE STREET SOUTH CLARK STREET SOUTH MICHIGAN AVE
Street, turning right onto South 6 7
Michigan Avenue and past the WEST MONROE STREET E MONROE S WABASH AVENUE STREET EAST MONROE DRIVE
stately Art Institute of Chicago Monroe
(see p48–51). Lorado Taft’s (1860– SOUTH W ACKER DRIVE 1
1936) Fountain of the Great Lakes WEST ADAMS STREET STREET STREET BUTLER
FIELD
(1913) 2, with its five female Quincy Adams/
figures, is at the south end of the Jackson Wabash SOUTH COLUMBUS DRIVE
main building. One block farther WEST JACKSON BLVD 5 4 2 EAST JACKSON DRIVE SOUTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE
south is the main entrance to
Grant Park 3, from where there LaSalle/ GRANT
is a good view of the buildings Van Buren Library E VAN BUREN STREET PARK
along Michigan Avenue, WEST V AN BUREN ST 3 Van Buren
Street
including the Santa Fe Building
(see p47). Walk west along Van Dearborn Street to West Dearborn Street to Washington,
Buren Street, turning right at Randolph Street bearing left. On the left is Catalan
Cross Dearborn Street artist Joan Miró’s (1893–1983)
and enter the Chicago (1981) 8, a surreal
courtyard of the feminine figure made of plaster
Federal Center (see and bronze and studded with
p45) to see American colorful ceramic tiles. Just north
sculptor Alexander across the street in the Richard J.
Calder’s (1898–1976) Daley Plaza is an untitled
dramatic Flamingo sculpture by Pablo Picasso
(1974) 5. Retrace (1881–1973) 9. The piece
your steps to created a stir when first erected,
6 The Four Seasons by Marc Chagall Dearborn Street. as Chicagoans debated its
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